As many of you know Notre Dame recently hired their new football coach, former Cincinnati Bearcats coach Brian Kelley. Brian Kelley had an impressive year at UC leading his team to a perfect 13-0 season and a spot in the Sugar Bowl against Florida. It is almost a second National title game. This will be the biggest game in the universities entire football history and coach Kelley will not be coaching his players. I was appalled when I found out this news and felt so sorry for the athletes at Cincinnati. To what point has college football become a business where coaches can leave for the bigger money. What happened to tradition or the Joe Pa's of the world? His reason for not coaching the game was his focus is on Notre Dame now and he can not do anything about that. After showing up to the awards banquet in Cincinnati and announcing to his players he would be leaving, twelve of those players got up and left the minute he told them.
The NCAA needs to make a rule where coaches are not to be contacted until the season is finished and cannot take coaching offers until they have played their bowl game if they qualified for one. It is unfair to the student athletes who were recruited by Kelley and worked their butts off for him to get where they are now. For Kelley to go and leave shows what kind of person he really is. What will stop him from taking the next big job? There is something wrong with the rules when a coach is allowed to leave his team for a new coaching opportunity with no penalties but when a player decides to transfer, they have to sit out an entire year.
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I could not have said it better than this: "There is something wrong with the rules when a coach is allowed to leave his team for a new coaching opportunity with no penalties but when a player decides to transfer, they have to sit out an entire year." I totally agree. What Brian Kelly did was deplorable!
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